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Haiti belief and scientific proof on zombie

Article 246 of
the Haitian Penal CodeIt shall also be
qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any
person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma
more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be
considered murder no matter what result follows.

Article 246 of the Haitian Penal code states about producing a lethargic
coma, which is someone referred to as a zombie.
As you can see in Haiti, zombie is accepted as reality in their
culture. And there are hundreds of cases
reported about zombification every year, though the process of zombifying
someone is still not clear.

Haitian doctors on the other hand attributed zombification to
poisoning. In order for someone to turn
a person into a zombie, a zombie powder has to be use. They called it coupe poudre. The coupe poudre, consists of toxins from the
cane toad, tree frog, tetrodotoxin which is a toxin from the puffer fish and
others.

High amount of tetrodotoxin can be lethal to those who ingested it. But if given with the right amount, the body
can be put in a state of paralysis, their heart rate would slow down (others
used it to fake death), and their metabolism rate decreases. Their mind is also placed into a trance
effect.

The irritant found in the toxin of cane toad can cause wound on the skin
of the person. With the combination of a
heart stopping toxin and a skin irritating poison. The doctor would perhaps wrongly declare
someone for being dead. Some of them
managed to resurface again, and the wounds cause by the toxin would make them
look like a zombie.

But the voodoo master is not done yet.
She prepared another medicine to administer the effect. The second potion is believed to contain
toxin that can cause hallucination to the victim. They believe it is a way used by the Haitians
to punish those who violated the law.

But others said that there is not enough toxins present on the zombie
powder to stage a fake death. They said
that it is not even enough to affect humans.

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